If you work at a dealership, you know there can be many pieces of selling a vehicle. However, at the end of the day, with all of the tools and processes and formulated responses salespeople use, none of that matters. What does matter though, according to trainer, author, and host of Straight Talk right here on CBT, David Lewis, is your likeability factor.
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